skate.Reel Servers Shutting Down on March 1st

skate.Reel Servers Shutting Down on March 1st

Skate Celebrity will become even more elusive

Posted by zigs00 on 05 February 10 at 15:10 , updated on 05 February 10 at 15:10

Update: Just a reminder you have one final day (less than 24 hours) to get those final votes in and help each other out. Help out your fellow TA'ers!

Original Story --
For fans still playing or yet to play EA's skate., time is running out for the skate.Reel servers, the game's feature for uploading photos and video online. For us achievement fans, that means that Exhibitionist in skate., Skate's Top Model in skate. and Skate Celebrity in skate. will soon become unobtainable achievements

Servers for the skate.Reel feature will be shut down on March 1st, 2010. After this date, you may continue to play the game online but no longer able to capture video clips and upload them to the skate.Reel galleries, both in-game and on the skate website.
For those yet to get the elusive Skate Celebrity achievement, Kung Fu Riki has set up a brilliant leaderboard and forum section for everyone to help one another out in getting these achievements while you still can. Check the leaderboard out here: skate. Rate My Video and the forum thread here: Rate My Skate Video

Though as stated above, you will still be able to play online in the competitive modes, so don't worry too much. Also note that this is only applicable to skate. and not Skate 2
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A 2rue boofer
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A 2rue boofer - Anyone have the viral Achievement in Blacksite and still has the game.
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Posted on 05 February 10 at 15:18
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tasty Pastry
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Last post: Today at 18:38
Posted on 05 February 10 at 15:22
Crap. Now I gotta go rent this thing. It was my second game played on my 360 - purely by my friend. It was going to be one of the last games I tackled in completion percentage, but I guess this hurries the process.
Use one of the quotes from that thread
DEANER1981
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Last post: 10 Mar at 00:46
Posted on 05 February 10 at 15:27
EA is kind of pissing me off shutting down servers every other day.
tractakid
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Posted on 05 February 10 at 15:28
Phew, have this achievement already
EMS1993
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Posted on 05 February 10 at 15:31
Dam, why did I have to get .Skate and not .Skate 2?
grown lil man
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Posted on 05 February 10 at 15:39
the server has been up for about 3 years
DragonYen
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Last post: Yesterday at 22:42
Posted on 05 February 10 at 15:39
EA: Enough Already.
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Lodoss Inderos - Playing Final Fantasy XIII and BFBC2. Awesomesauce.
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Last post: 16 Feb at 18:44
Posted on 05 February 10 at 15:41
grown lil man said:the server has been up for about 3 years
What does that matter?

Ultima Online, an EA PC MMORPG which is nearly dead still has it's main server online.
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Last post: 02 Mar at 14:49
Posted on 05 February 10 at 15:48
this is getting beyond a joke now EA just stop whilst you can before you shut everything down
onemorechanc
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onemorechanc - EA SUCKS for shutting down game servers ...
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Last post: 11 Mar at 17:11
Posted on 05 February 10 at 16:00, Edited on 05 February 10 at 16:01 by onemorechanc
Stupid EA.

When I buy a game, I like to think I will have full access to all the features. When anybody buys an EA game, they get a disc, and rent the features on it.
GameTagwastaken - Green Day: Rock Band better not have any Foxboro Hot Tubs in those 47 songs!
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Posted on 05 February 10 at 16:03
This is getting annoying. And yet I think I may voice my displeasure by buying the game and getting these achievements before the servers go offline. Yet another reason why online achievements are the devil.
xCHRONIC KAOSx - CHILLIN LIKE A VILLAIN
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Last post: Yesterday at 21:43
Posted on 05 February 10 at 16:21
Yea this is getting annoying. It was the same with NFS PRO STREET RACE DAY ACHIEVMENT!!!!!
But if any1 is still missing the SKATE ACHIEVMENT can u add me so i can get it done.
CHEERS
DJbruce92
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Posted on 05 February 10 at 16:22
tractakid said:Phew, have this achievement already
Me too, High five smile. But if people want me to rate their stuff. I no longer own the game but I can rate your stuff so just pm me. I'm more than willing to help since this achievement took me awhile to get and was my first 1,000.
jphil03
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Posted on 05 February 10 at 16:37
xTMDxMorbidDead said:this is getting beyond a joke now EA just stop whilst you can before you shut everything down
The current economic climate shows that they are trying to save money where they can, and one part of this is shutting servers down. Just gotta live with it. I am not saying that i agree, but a company has to make money to operate.
Steve Redman
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Posted on 05 February 10 at 17:12
Hopefully I can get this before EA does more damage on their games I swear I am never buying a EA sports title again FU EA
I 0NLY777 I
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Posted on 05 February 10 at 17:33
jphil03 said:The current economic climate shows that they are trying to save money where they can, and one part of this is shutting servers down. Just gotta live with it. I am not saying that i agree, but a company has to make money to operate.
But EA can't be struggling surely? They're one of the biggest names out there.

Why exactly do EA have their own servers again? I'm sure it was mentioned before but I can't remember.
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Jayour
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Posted on 05 February 10 at 17:56
jphil03 said:The current economic climate shows that they are trying to save money where they can, and one part of this is shutting servers down. Just gotta live with it. I am not saying that i agree, but a company has to make money to operate.
Then why not switch the feature and allow users to become dedicated server hosts.

It's because it's not about saving money, it's about making money, EA don't make money off people buying pre-owned old games, this way if you want to play an EA game online you'll need to invest in the new titles!

They're just using the current state of the economy as an excuse.
Raisukai
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Posted on 05 February 10 at 18:23
DragonYen said:EA: Enough Already.
Amen.
zigs00
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Posted on 05 February 10 at 18:27
Jayour said:It's because it's not about saving money, it's about making money
It's both. They're hosting the servers so paying money out of their corporate pocket to do that, and it must've got to the point where its not active enough to be commercially viable anymore. In this economic times, cutting down on their servers saves EA money, as well as giving them more funding for future games.